[Wylug-help] Grub Booting Problem

[James Holden]

On Wed, May 24, 2006 at 02:23:52PM +0100, David Whiteley wrote:
> Has anyone any ideas what I am doing wrong.
> 
> I have an old Dell poweredge server, and it has been running for years,
> using lilo for booting.
> 
> I have upgraded the kernel, and installed Grub.  When it boots it is
> ignoring the /boot/grub/menu.lst, and is dropping into the grub command
> line.
> 
> I can then boot my system by using the "root", "kernel" , "initrd" and
> "boot" commands specifying the correct arguments.
> 
> If I use the "configfile /grub/menu.lst" command it loads up my
> menu.lst, and boots correctly.
> 
> Any clues anyone?

It sounds like Grub's misconfigured. Specifically, it probably thinks
it's installed somewhere else.

As root, try this:

grub-install --recheck --root-directory=/boot hd0
                                              ^^^ = hda in grub speak
					      
This is a little simpler than determining where the grub parts live, and
running the setup commands manually.

James

> This server is in use, and I have to work on it at times when its
> disappearance causes minimum chaos, and so it is hard to experiment too
> much.
> 
> Dave
> 
> -- 
> Dave Whiteley
> The School of Electronic and Electrical Engineering
> The University of Leeds
> Leeds
> d.l.whiteley at ee.leeds.ac.uk
> 0113 343 2059
> 
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